@alyth to Mildly InfuriatingEnglish • 5 months agoA fresh install of Signal takes up 410MB, blowing both Firefox and Chromium out of the waterimagemessage-square186arrow-up1510arrow-down136file-text
arrow-up1474arrow-down1imageA fresh install of Signal takes up 410MB, blowing both Firefox and Chromium out of the water@alyth to Mildly InfuriatingEnglish • 5 months agomessage-square186file-text
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish21•5 months agoDebian Linux installation ISO is only 336 MB, FFS. And that’s a whole operating system with user land!
minus-square@KISSmyOSFedditlinkEnglish23•5 months agoNo, that’s a tarball of a kernel, basic command line tools, apt and a network stack that lets you download most of the operating system.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish17•5 months agoUm, no? The 336 megabyte usb installation media contains everything you need to install base Debian. Most people will want a desktop environment and other packages, they can connect to the network to download those additional packages. Even the how-to says the network is optional. https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch02s04.en.html#idm368
Debian Linux installation ISO is only 336 MB, FFS. And that’s a whole operating system with user land!
No, that’s a tarball of a kernel, basic command line tools, apt and a network stack that lets you download most of the operating system.
Um, no? The 336 megabyte usb installation media contains everything you need to install base Debian. Most people will want a desktop environment and other packages, they can connect to the network to download those additional packages.
Even the how-to says the network is optional.
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch02s04.en.html#idm368
me when i spread misinformation